"Choose a military unit with a wubao as your garrison site. Then act according to circumstances, secretly ascertain the true state of the nearby wubao, and report truthfully. Take care not to startle the snake in the grass."
That was the content of Benevolent Sovereign Ji Long's secret provisional decree.
It was a secret decree that sent chills streaming down Ye Zhen's scalp.
The true state of the wubao?
That meant there was a problem with the wubao in the Human-Demon Battlefield.
But what chilled Ye Zhen to the bone most was the phrase, "Take care not to startle the snake in the grass."
In investigating a mere wubao, what snake would they be startling?
Did Benevolent Sovereign Ji Long, the Holy Son of Heaven of Great Zhou, really need to specifically warn Ye Zhen not to startle the snake in the grass?
As chills ran through his entire body, Ye Zhen also realized that the situation in the Human-Demon Battlefield might be even more complicated than he had imagined.
For that very reason, when he discovered that the two missing patrol squads had vanished near Dingbian Wubao, Ye Zhen instinctively linked the possibility to Dingbian Wubao.
There were no signs of Devil Race infiltration, so there could only be some other reason.
"Little Demon, control as many of the flowers, grass, and trees here as possible, especially in the core area of the wubao." Ye Zhen beckoned. The greenwood hairpin that Little Demon had transformed into and inserted into Ye Zhen's hair bun trembled lightly. In an instant, Little Demon's Dao Realm primordial spirit power mingled with the flowers, grass, and trees whose roots were everywhere, stretching toward Dingbian Wubao.
Though it was called a wubao, Dingbian Wubao actually covered an enormous area.
In terms of size, it was